Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Another warm and sunny day...............the only
observations today were from the garden.

Quite a few young birds around................2nd
brood of Blackbird present in the
garden with another 2 youngsters, at least 2 young Wren noted and 3 generations of Moorhen in the garden: adults...........young from a couple of months ago........
and young only a few weeks old. A Song Thrush still
collecting food, 2 adult and 2 young Robin still present, 2 Stock Dove visiting regularly and Finches and Tits very active.

Monday, 23 June 2014

Yellow seemed to be the colour today with the yellow sun
beaming down, a couple of Yellow Wagtail
noted on the Hawthorn, secondly a Yellowhammer
singing from the fence line and a Brimstone
butterfly flew by!

A fair few Pyramid Orchids growing on the slope as
it’s an area the cattle don’t like to graze; they would rather stay on the
flat!

A Southern Hawker
and an Emperor dragonfly around,
butterflies were Small Tortoiseshell
in good numbers, a dozen or more Speckled
Wood, 3 Brimstone, 2 Red Admiral and a Large Skipper.

Also a probable Orange-tailed
Clearwing moth!

Confirmation of Tufted
Duck breeding in the parish, a pair with 8 young.

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I have always had a passion for wildlife and the environment; I have been birding now for quite a few years. I moved from Chelsea to Cholsey, Oxfordshire when I was 9 years old.

My main influence was my old Cholsey school headmaster W.D.(Bill)Campbell. He inspired my interest in wildlife. I have travelled widely on a global scale(ex Royal Navy), and in the 80’s I got into twitching, travelled a lot observing rare birds that turned up in the UK. I have been birding in the Cholsey(and Oxfordshire)area since the early 1970’s and since moving back to Cholsey from Wallingford I have focused more on my local patches of Lollingdon Hill and Cholsey Marsh, also other areas in Cholsey.